I'm the GitHub Technical Lead - DACH, and I'm passionate about frontend technologies and everything related to the cloud, especially Microsoft Azure. I currently live in Zurich and actively participate in local and international community activities and events. I share my love for technology through my blog dev.to/kasuken. I also became a Twitch Affiliate as a live coder and you can follow me at twitch.tv/kasuken to write some code together.
GitHub Star ⭐ (x4) and a Microsoft MVP (x12).
GitHub Star of the Year 2023. 🏆
- Sharing updates on LinkedIn 💼
- My site: www.emanuelebartolesi.com
- Writing articles: dev.to/kasuken
- Learning in public on Twitch and thinking to move to Kick in the future.
- ☁️ I work as a GitHub Technical Lead at Xebia
- 🤓 I am the CIO (ex CTO) and co-founder of Brandplane, a marketing agency driven by AI
- 🚀 I am building a portfolio of SaaS products — check them out below
- 🌱 I’m currently learning Blazor, ASP.NET Core GraphQL, LLM and SLM
- 📙 I wrote a book about Minimal APIs for Packt
- 📝 I am writing a book about Cloud Automation with GitHub Copilot for Packt
- 🧙♂️ I released a course "Learning GitHub" on LinkedIn Learning
- 🏊🚴🏃 Sport fact: I am an Ironman finisher, still training for triathlon, came back to martial arts (kick boxing) for a while
I love building products. These are the SaaS I run in production or I am actively developing. The ones in production are open source under AGPL-3.0:
| Product | Status | What it does | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🧠 Brainy | 🟢 In production | Your second brain, inspired by the PARA method and the CODE workflow. Built with .NET and Blazor. | Website · Source |
| 📚 LearnStack | 🟢 In production | A personal learning queue that helps you collect, prioritize, and turn knowledge into output. | Website · Source |
| 💰 MoneyBrain | 🟢 In production | Personal finance, minus the spreadsheets: track, budget, and understand your money. | Website · Source |
| 📌 Needly | 🟢 In production | The engineering action inbox for GitHub. | Website · Source |
| 🤝 Relio | 🚧 In development | A lightweight personal CRM to keep your personal relationships alive. | |
| 🐙 OctoWatch | 🚧 In development | Keep an eye on your GitHub repositories, Organizations, Teams, and activity in one place. | |
| 🎤 CallStage | 🚧 In development | Track call-for-papers, submissions, and speaking engagements in one place. |
The Minimal APIs feature, introduced in .NET 6, answers code complexity and rising dependencies in creating even the simplest of APIs. Minimal APIs facilitate API development using compact code syntax and help you develop web APIs quickly.
This practical guide explores Minimal APIs end-to-end and helps you take advantage of its features and benefits for your ASP.NET Core projects. The chapters in this book will help you speed up your development process by writing less code and maintaining fewer files using Minimal APIs. You’ll also learn how to enable Swagger for API documentation, along with CORS, and handle application errors. The book even promotes ideas to structure your code better using the dependency injection library in .NET. Finally, you'll learn about performance and benchmarking improvements for your apps.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to fully leverage new features in .NET 6 for API development and explore how Minimal APIs are an evolution over classical web API development in ASP.NET Core.
GitHub is the industry-standard tool for collaborating on and sharing code. It’s popular among software developers, project managers, designers, and students for its flexibility and control. This course introduces GitHub and Git, the version control system that GitHub is built upon. Instructor Emanuele Bartolesi shows how GitHub can create collaborative workflows for you and your team. Explore how version control enables you and your team to track the changes in your files, maintain a history of them, and get some advice on working better with open-source projects. Emanuele gives you the knowledge you need to be able to select appropriate projects to be pushed to GitHub, successfully initialize Git on an existing project, navigate the GitHub UI to perform common tasks like branching, commits, and pull requests, and more.
👨🏻💻 Programming Languages
💻 Framework and Libraries
☁️ Cloud Services
💾 Databases
⚙️ IDE & Editors
🔨 Productivity Tools
🦾 Tools
- Seasoned Developer Advice after 25 years in IT
- My Windows 11 Laptop Was Struggling with Claude and Codex. Defender Exclusions Helped.
- Moving to European Digital Services, One Decision at a Time
- Fixing “Your organization has deleted this device” Without Reconnecting Everything
- Stop Coding Through Remote Desktop. Use VS Code Remote Tunnels Instead
- 🚀 Published release v0.4.0 - Status LEDs in kasuken/home-robot
- 🚀 Published release v0.3.0 - AprilTag position fixes in kasuken/home-robot
- 🚀 Published release v0.2.0 - The plan of the house in kasuken/home-robot
- 🚀 Published release v0.1.1 - Merge into main and self-restart in kasuken/home-robot
- 🚀 Published release v0.1.0 - Learning new skills in kasuken/home-robot
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